Finnish American Collection

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Collection description

The Finnish American Collection includes literature published in Finnish, Swedish and English in the United States and Canada between 1876 and 1977. In addition to approximately 2,100 and 550 newspapers and periodicals, the collection includes serial and annual publications and ephemera and sheet music. The collection includes religious, political and other social literature as well as original and translated fiction.

From 1978, Finnish American literature has been placed among other literature in the National Collection.

Catalogue information

Card catalogue made of the collection

The collection has been described in the reference database

The collection has been only partially catalogued

The collection is partly catalogued in the Fennica database (from 1901). Information pertaining to the part of the collection missing form the database is available in the main card index of the National Collection and the related American literature card index on th 2nd floor of Fabiania.

From 1978, Finnish American literature has been placed among other literature in the National Collection, where new Finnish American literature is acquired as single acquisitions. In addition, some newspapers published abroad in Finnish are ordered for the collection.

Provenance

The Finnish American Collection was born out of Finnish literature collected in the United States in 1881–1885 by David Castrén, who migrated to the Michigan area.

Collector

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